NOMAD DREAMING

Sunday just passed, September 11, the 21st anniversary of the event that changed everything in the USA, I didn't work on printing or the...

For most people living in the USA, summer is bookended by the Memorial Day (May) and Labour Day (September) holiday weekends. For me,...

With markedly shorter and cooler days (that’s temperatures in the nineties not triple digits) I decided to refresh my Calendula plantings...

More rose quartz than ruby or garnet, the arils of the first pomegranate which I open are lightly sweet and refreshing. It might be a few...

Datura wrightii (sacred datura) is discovered this morning, blooming in the jacalope and rattlesnake indigenous garden which I’ve been...

September is a beautiful month in the garden. Pollinators are busy in the Allium tuberosum (aka Chinese or garlic chives) which are...

Recently I watched a video which I found online about a small Mexican coastal town. The vlogger is a young British person currently...

Those meteorologists weren’t wrong. The most significant monsoon rains of the season deluged us this weekend just past. In the first twenty four hours my rain gauge showed a little over 1.5 inches. Total for the weekend was probably around 2.3 inches or so. For perspective: annual average for my town is usually given as around 10 inches, but we have probably failed to achieve that for at least the past 5 years. In the garden, some of the very tall sunflowers were pounded awry

Meteorologists are predicting a serious monsoon moisture event this weekend for the little piece of Chihuahuan desert where I live....

My favourite time of day, any time of year, is just before sunrise. Monsoon season in the Chihuahuan desert, however, adds a special...

A gift of 5 pounds of ripe peaches came my way yesterday. After spending some time last night reading through South African peach chutney...

Today I stumbled on the motherlode of vintage embroidered household linens in a rusty, dusty, hot almost to point of unbearable, junk,...

I don’t mind wildlife sharing this little piece of earth I occupy, and I believe we can cohabit reasonably amicably. However there is,...

Buzzy bees and butterflies are delighting in what the Garden of Earthly Delights currently has to offer. Tithonia (Mexican sunflowers)...

Went outback to close up the shed for the night, because, when we coincide in the predawn twilight in the garden, I’ve noticed a skunk...

Regardless of how they are billed (deliberate word play) just about every feathered roommate is hanging out at the two grape arbors these...

Out watering this morning, because the promised overnight storm didn’t even bring enough raindrops to register in the rain gauge, a...

For several days now, I’ve been noticing high bird activity in the grape vine. Today I looked closer and found a fair smattering of empty...

The dead tarantula (Aphonopelma chalcodes) at the hacienda driveway entrance raises some questions. When first I stepped out and over it,...

Last year, after corn earworm ravaged my corn crop so thoroughly, I decided not to plant corn for a few years. Come spring this year,...